Friday, July 25, 2014

Signalling :- Some Important questions?

1. What is the diffetrence between circuit signaling and non circuit related signalling??
Ans.:--
Signalling was initially introduced to initiate the call process i.e. setting up and clearing down connection between trunks.Traditionally, once a circuit was set up, no other signaling was performed apart from releasing the call; therefore, all calls were simple, basic telephone service calls. However, modern telephone networks can perform signaling while a call is in progress, especially for supplementary services—for example, to introduce another called party into the call, or to signal the arrival of another incoming call (call waiting) to one of the parties.

When there is signalling when there is no call to be establish then this signalling is known as  non circuit related signalling. It is primarily used for query and response with telecommunications databases to support cellular networks, intelligent networks, and supplementary services. For example, in Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs), the visitor location register (VLR) that is in charge of the area into which the subscriber has roamed updates the home location register (HLR) of the subscriber's location.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Purging Time

As we know to allow roaming in a GSM  network VLR uses the temporary data of subscriber form HLR. this data remains as long as the subscriber is connected to the BSS that is  apart of that MSC/VLR area. But interesting thing is that the subscriber data remins even after the mobiel system is switched.
But the question arises, upto what time??
yes that is what Purging comes out of the box.
After an extended period of the MS being switched off, the subscription data willbe purged from the MSC.
Purging is that time , which defines the data retainment within MSC.